When a well loved family man and baseball coach ends up dead in a North Carolina town his wife tells police it is an accident.

However, the lead detective on the case as well as the man's ex-wife suspect something more sinister happened. 

In the end, the truth of what happened to Russ Stager comes from a very unlikely source.. Russ Stager himself.

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Sources:

https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article175045666.html

https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.php/2019/09/13/barbara-stager-murderer-and-spendthrift/comment-page-1/

https://medium.com/the-true-crime-edition/barbara-stager-shots-in-the-dark-41969347674b

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